What the work has produced.
A selection of matters, with the figures that mattered and the constraints that shaped them. Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome.
The firm in figures
$42.6B
Transaction value closed since 2019
31
SEC and DOJ inquiries closed with no action
47
Years since the firm opened on LaSalle Street
Selected matters.
$1.4B
Industrial manufacturer sold to a strategic acquirer
Second-request response cleared in fourteen weeks. Closed sixty-one days after clearance.
0
Enforcement recommendations following a Wells submission
SEC investigation of a Chicago asset manager closed at the investigative stage.
11
Add-on acquisitions closed on one sponsor platform
Twenty-two months, four states, a single set of transaction documents.
$600M
Founder liquidity event planned nine months ahead of signing
Pre-transaction gifting completed while valuation discounts were still available.
10 mo
Early termination of a deferred prosecution agreement
Remediation and reporting accepted ahead of the stated term.
214
Matters resolved without trial since 2019
Across litigation, enforcement and fiduciary disputes.
Clients, on the record
They found the indemnity gap our previous counsel had signed off on twice. It was worth eleven million dollars and it took them nine days.
Priya told us on day one what the dismissal argument would be. Fourteen months later that was the argument the judge adopted.
What I wanted was someone who would say no to me. Whitman said no three times in the first month and the deal is better for it.
The federal investigation ran two years. In that time Desmond never once told me something was fine when it was not.
Our family had put off the succession conversation for a decade. Ingrid got it done in four meetings without anyone leaving the room angry.
Every matter is different. The outcomes described on this page depended on facts specific to those engagements, and nothing here is a prediction or a guarantee about any other matter. Descriptions are generalised where an engagement requires client identities to be withheld.
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